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CFPB announces advisory committee members

CFPB Monitor

Lorray Brown, Attorney/Consumer Law Attorney, Co-Director, Michigan Poverty Law Program (Ypsilanti, MI). Nadine Cohen, Managing Attorney, Greater Boston Legal Services (Boston, MA). Rebecca Steele, President/CEO, National Foundation for Credit Counseling (Washington, DC). Tim Lampkin, CEO, Higher Purpose Co.

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CFPB announces new appointments to advisory groups

CFPB Monitor

Chi Chi Wu, Staff Attorney, National Consumer Law Center, Boston, MA. A 2014 article in the Michigan Journal of Law and Race described Professor Ayres as having spent much of his career “empirically documentingrace and gender discrimination, including in the context of consumer purchasing.” ”

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46 Corporations Working On Autonomous Vehicles

CB Insights

Top initiatives: First company to test self-driving tech on the streets of Singapore, and later in Boston. It then also became the first to test such technology on public streets in Boston, Massachusetts. Top initiatives: Started building autonomous driving infrastructure with Michigan DOT in 2017. Read more : WSJ , The Verge.

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11 New Restaurant Concepts Reimagining Fast Food & Casual Dining

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In 2017, the National Restaurant Association reported annual sales of $799B — close to 48% of the total amount that Americans spent on food. Vegan fast casual: By Chloe (NYC, Boston, LA, Providence, London). In Boston, Oleana founder Ana Sortun opened the lunch and takeout venue Sofra. Americans dine out more than ever before.

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From AT&T To Xerox: 65 Corporate Innovation Labs

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From their humble, skunkworks-style origins in Palo Alto to their current offices in Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Seattle, and Boston, they’ve scaled up to attack new projects but keep the same focus on experimentation and innovation that helped them build the first Kindle. National Medal of Science, Turing Awards, Kyoto Prizes, and many others.